It was a great year in the domain industry - Bob Parsons, founder of Godaddy began an accelerated program to hasten extinct of the large mammals of the African veldt and forest. If you bought a .com name during this time like millions of people did you probably helped - thanks Bob and thanks ICANN!

So, ICANN who were told to "devolve the NSI monopoly" as one of their three mandates from the US government, did the only thing possible to make the situation worse - they replaced a monopoly with a monopoly that shoots elephants as well.